A grand jury indicted a father on a first-degree murder charge in the October death of his son.
The day after Deandre Pettus Jr. was found dead inside a squalid Connecticut Avenue NW apartment, D.C. police charged his father, Deandre Pettus Sr., with cruelty to children, saying they did not know how the child died and would wait for a ruling from the medical examiner.
Last week, a grand jury returned an indictment saying Pettus Sr. “did torture and cruelly beat” his son. The indictment also alleges he killed the child “by drowning him on or about October 6th.”…